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...Then there's the uniforms. At my school we wore a rather demure tunic and an ugly hat. Its singular advantage was that it looked equally unprepossessing on everyone. However, you could tell in which clique a person belonged by nuanced differences in their ensembles. A longer tunic meant you were a brain, loose socks meant you were a toughie. Here at the games all the well-meaning muddle-aged volunteers - the rough equivalent of school prefects - wear garish shirts and silly hats. As well as looking equally unprepossessing on everyone, including my rather rotund father, they too have nuances...
...hindsight, the most memorable images of science fiction often have more to do with our anxieties in the past (that is to say, the writer's present) than with those singular and ongoing scenarios that make up our life as a species--our real future, our ongoing present...
...most people's fondest recollections of college revolve around people. And, the people at Harvard certainly are unique. For me, their singular nature was most dramatically distilled one night at the Arrow Street Crepe shop. The hard-working proprietors of the eatery were closing down their equipment when a group of Harvard students entered the store. When one girl began to order a crepe, she was informed, "Sorry, honey, we're closed." At this point, one of her companions, a prominent member of the Undergraduate Council, vehemently demanded service. When politely rebuffed, he launched into a verbal tirade, chastising...
...Ullman's charm is that she doesn't fall into Woody Allen's typical neurotic rhythms - her dialogue with Ray never comes off as "too cute." Allen, meanwhile, plays lowlife Ray Winkler like he does a neurotic Jew and it's effortlessly endearing as usual. His comedy is so singular, so impossibly unique that there's really no way for him to demonstrate range. Woody Allen plays Woody Allen in every movie - and that's why we hate it when he doesn't star in his yearly picture...
...past thirty five years, Allen has been the one force of consistency in a medium that is starting to lend itself to more and more adulterated studio projects each year. But every twelve months, we get a movie that's 100% Woody-his writing, his directing, his singular vision. There's no question that Woody Allen is a comic genius, the type of artist that we take for granted because he is so prolific. Woody, of course, disagrees. His modesty isn't an act. He genuinely believes that he is, in fact, a "failed artist...